Review: The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
byChristine Valters Paintner, The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2011, xiv + 171 pp., £14.99/$16.99…
Art and Monasticism
The Sound of Silence and the Silence of Sound: On Having Ears to Hear
byAnd in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that…
Icons as Written Theology
bySr Mary Stella McNamee, icon writer of the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning, offers a reflection on icons.
Thoughts on Consecrated Life for Artists
byThis week, we have seen how artists can apply monastic wisdom and techniques to their creative lives, as well as to their spiritual lives….
The Art Monastery: Monastic Technologies [Part Two]
byNathan Rosquist continues his discussion of ‘open-source monasticism’ by sharing specific monastic ‘technologies’ used in the Art Monastery Project.
The Art Monastery: Open-Source Monasticism [Part One]
byNathan Rosquist, founder of the Art Monastery San Francisco, talks about using both Western and Eastern monasticism as ‘open-source software’ for artistic creation.
Brush Stroked Incense: How Painting and Monks Taught Me to Pray
byPreston Yancey, an incoming MLitt student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, offers a meditation on how the discipline of the Divine Office deepened his experience of painting as prayer.